A stretch of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Parkway is closed after multiple reports of visitors feeding and attempting to hold a young bear, the National Park Service said.

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Georgia's mountains are home to an amazing stretch of wilderness where you can completely disconnect from your wired world and become one with nature.

Sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway at times shut down for maintenance. During my most recent trip, a portion traversing the Virginia/North Carolina line was closed, requiring an 18-mile detour.

Where is the Blue Ridge Parkway closed? The parkway remains closed from Sunbelt/Autumnview Road in Virginia (mile marker 200.1) through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (mile marker 469).

In 2023, the Blue Ridge Parkway, with hundreds of miles of winding roads cutting through Virginia and North Carolina, was visited by 16.7 million people and brought in $1.4 billion in local ...

About 250 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway, or 53% of the road, remains closed f ollowing Tropical Storm Helene's destruction of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina on Sept. 27.

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For those on the North Carolina side looking for nearby alternatives to the parkway, Rita Larkin, a spokeswoman for the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, recommended attractions like the Moses H ...